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Othmar, St

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Othmar, St (or St Otmar or St Andemar) (died 759)

Swiss Benedictine monk, Abbot of the monastery of St Gall, Switzerland, from 720. He introduced the Benedictine rule and made St Gall the most important abbey of Switzerland. Persecuted by two neighbouring counts, he was sentenced by an ecclesiastical court and died in prison. His feast day is 16 November.



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